Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-26
A MORNINGS ROUND.
What Can Be Seen and Heard In 0ne
Mornings Drive About Through the
Streets Of the Ciiys
Patients and Patients that Doctors Eavo to
Deal W1th-Glimpses of Ltfo MS Seen
by a Medical Gentleman.

"Jump in and take ride with me, {"
said prominent physician to GAZETTE
scribe yesterday, on Main street.
''Where are you going?"
"Oh, not far"
81 nave been up to my neck in some of
you doctors mot far drives before and
am afraid. You are not going more than
ten miles in the country, are your"
"No, no; l am simply going around
town, and when you get tired riding you
can jump out and return on street car, ="
said the good man Of medicine.
Being assured that trip into the coun-
try was not contemplated, the scribe got
in and the Doctor drove away.
"I'm little lste," he said, whipping
up his horse. "I should have started
earlier, but was detained by case that I
had to attend to. We will get around in
good time, however, if we have no bad
luck"
"Do you have to make "Trip like this
regularly every morning."
eyes, sir; as regular as a milk wagon.
Sometimes l can get through early, and
sometimes it takes until after dinner time
to make the rounds. am going on the
South Side first this morning, and work
back"
We logged along, the conversation
turning from one point to another
of local interest, and finally drifted
to the subject of medicine. Here the
Doctor was in his element, for he has
made his reputation and piled up COM
Portable competence in the practice OF
his profession, and is an independent
thinker as we'll as bold speaker
or course, the man with the pencil
could do nothing but listen-the
Doctor had the floor and had to do all the
talking, and right well did he employ his
| time. Since the day upon which the
daughter of the Thessalian king present.
| ed Apollo with son Esculapius and his
| disciples have been prominent and liter
esting figures. The healing art is no less
reverenCed now, in these latter days OF
realism, than when the esrly explorer in
medical science not only prescribed
remedies, but sought them out and dis
covered them in untrammelled slens
upon the mountain sides and in the bogs
and fens. There is mysterious power
in "the doctor" which often drives sway
pain by his mere presence. People suf-
fering supposed agonies are soothed and
relieved often by q few well timed words
OF comfort and consolation from the ply
stefan in whom faith is reposed. Slight
ailments magnitied into acute tortures by
the unrestrsined imaginations of the suf-
fering, are often relieved and the Illusion
dispelled by few words from
the family physician. How often dc
doctors have patients tell them
81 was very sick, and suffering
terribly while since, but I'm better
noW?" OF course the mere presence Of
doctor, can give no relief, Of itself. H.
is supposed to know just how sick s
patient is, and the patient knows this
and sees at once, that he will be dis
covered II he permits the delusion o.
thrice msgnided ailments to occupy hi!
mind and fashion his speech. He is JUS
so much sick and no more and it is use
less to 'put on" the doctor will know
better
We went to the South Side and to the
North Side; to the East Side and to the
West Side and all over the city from
center to circumference. We went t.
large and lordly houses where beautiful
walks led up to the carved doors anC
suffering lay on lowly cots or cabin floors
The doctor was the same; his sphynX
like features immovable. He appeared
not to notice the worldly surrounding:
of his patients, but looked with quiet bu
practical commiserstion on those who
suffered, and with bluff and hearty indif-
ference, on those who only imagined they
did. Pulses were felt, temperature as.
certained, tongues examined, questions
asked and directions given with imper
4, turbable and unvarying suavity, and 6
cheerful word and promise to call soor
again ended the visit. The scribe re
NAMED in the vehicle while the doctor
made the calls, and held the HORSES
very unnecessary proceeding, since he could
scarcely be made to move until his mas
ter's return. Sometimes, when the pa